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...investigation by the committee into the use of intelligence in the period ramping up to the invasion of Iraq. Phase I of the report, released on July 9, 2004, looked at the intelligence community's assessments as to whether a) Iraq had viable weapons of mass destruction and b) whether or not Iraq and al-Qaeda were strongly linked. We now know that a) it did not and b) they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer: Senate Report on Prewar Intelligence | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...Mossad agents. But what he really wants to do is cut hair. Working with top comedy writers Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow and dispensing with his standard idiot hero and bullying tone, Sandler fronts his most satisfying movie since The Wedding Singer in 1998. It's good, dirty fun. B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...which on the chop-suey soul-metal-prog Spaz and Everyone Nose is pretty damn weird. Even its worst experiments aren't the least bit predictable, which almost absolves Pharrell Williams of his inability to come up with anything to say beyond--and we're paraphrasing--Sex is nice. B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Pianist) for sex with a minor was the very model of modern media circuses. Marina Zenovich uses archival and new interviews to show how the court and press made an example of the (admittedly guilty) filmmaker. A thoughtful look at celebrity, justice and the incompatibility of the two. B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...school before dropping out to play music. When Chess Records showed an interest, a harmonica player supposedly suggested the stage name Bo Diddley, slang for a bowlegged fool. A few days later, Diddley made his first professional recording, Bo Diddley; it rocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and introduced the world to rock's defining rhythm, the Bo Diddley "hambone" beat--bum-bum-bum, bum bum--that's fueled everything from Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away to U2's Desire to the White Stripes' Screwdriver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bo Diddley | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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